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CLEMENTE CIULI (VERS 1781-VERS 1850-1855)

Lot 31
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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€ 25 400
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 31 | CLEMENTE CIULI (VERS 1781-VERS 1850-1855)
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
CLEMENTE CIULI (VERS 1781-VERS 1850-1855)
Femme éplorée à l'antique ou allégorie de la mort du duc de Berry
plaque circulaire en micro-mosaïque, signée "C. Ciuli", dans un cadre en bronze ciselé, gravé et doré à décor de fleurs de lys héraldiques et d'un cartouche inscrit d'un vers d'Horace (Odes I, 24 : À Virgile) "Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit nulli flebilior quam tibi." (Il est mort, digne d’être pleuré de tous les gens de bien ; mais nul ne doit le pleurer plus que toi)
D. 5 cm. (2 in.) ; dim. cadres : 15,2 x 12 cm. (6 x 4 ¾ in.)




Provenance

Par tradition familiale, offert par le roi Louis XVIII à Marie-Caroline de Bourbon, princesse des Deux-Siciles, duchesse de Berry (1798-1870) puis, don de la duchesse de Berry à l’un de ses proches puis par descendance dans cette collection ducale.
Collection aristocratique, Paris.



Literature

Bibliographie comparative :
L. Curmer, L'industrie : exposition des produits de l'industrie française en 1844, Paris, 1844, p. 225.
P. Marmottan, Les arts en Toscane sous Napoléon. La Princesse Elisa, Paris, 1901, p. 114.
J. Hanisee Gabriel, The Gilbert Collection. Micromosaics, Londres, 2000, pp. 35-36, 100, cat. 44.
R. Grieco, Micromosaici Romani. Roman Micromosaic, Rome, 2008, pp. 11-14 et p. 311.
M. Pupillo, "Le occasioni di Clemente Ciuli mosaicista romano", in. Bollettino dei Musei Comunali di Roma, XXIV, 2010, pp. 45-68.
M. Pupillo, “La Testa di Vestale di Clemente Ciuli tra Roma e Parigi”, in. C. Stefani (dir.), Arte et territorio. Il mosaico minuto tra Roma, Milano e l’Europa, Foligno, 2016, pp. 103-115.



Further Details

A MICROMOSAIC OF AN ANTIQUE MOURNER IN A FLEUR-DE-LYS BRONZE FRAME, CLEMENTE CIULI (C. 1781–C. 1850-55)
Applied technique:Micromosaic
Medium:Stone
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
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